rtimes (version 0.3.0)

cf_candidate_leaders: Campaign finance NYTimes API - candidate leaders

Description

Campaign finance NYTimes API - candidate leaders

Usage

cf_candidate_leaders(campaign_cycle = NULL, category = NULL, key = NULL, ...)

Arguments

campaign_cycle

An even-numbdered year in YYYY format. Presidential data: 2008-present; Congressional data: 2000-present

category

Category. Specify one of these categories:

• Candidate Loan `candidate-loan`
• Contribution Total `contribution-total`
• Debts Owed `debts-owed`
• Disbursements Total `disbursements-total`
• End Cash `end-cash`
• Individual Total `individual-total`
• PAC Total `pac-total`
• Receipts Total `receipts-total`
• Refund Total `refund-total`

key

your New York Times API key; pass in, or loads from .Rprofile as nytimes_cf_key, or from .Renviron as NYTIMES_CF_KEY

...

Curl options (debugging tools mostly) passed to GET

References

http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/campaign_finance_api/

Examples

## Not run: 
# cf_candidate_leaders(campaign_cycle = 2010, category='end-cash')
# cf_candidate_leaders(campaign_cycle = 2008, category='receipts-total')
# ## End(Not run)